2032 Observations from the fall is that the 2nd teams or 2nd tier clubs really struggled. There are 4 or 5 teams that will not last beyond this season in my opinion. No need to list the teams. Everyone sees the scores. There is absolutely no value in just throwing a team in tourneys just to forfeit or get blown out. This shouldn’t happen because there are good coaches (not necessarily clubs) that will focus on development and more importantly put the team on the right path to success. I think people forget that in travel the families are the clients and the clubs have to earn the business.
You have a steep learning curve if you think like that about clubs . Unless you are one of top few players that are on the club team that are above everyone else in ability, you are cannon fodder for the clubs. Which is majority of players.
The end result is that there are too many teams to build competitive teams after the top half.. 4 or 5 of those teams should combine rosters and they would be better off in my opinion. I am of that opinion because some of these times might not make a 2nd year. Plus families are sticking with the town programs more and more for cost and convenience and in a lot of cases the town team is better than the club team.
Express & Express East (4 teams)
91 and Empire (3 teams)
Rebels & Rebels East (3 and 1)
Legacy (Regular and East, although not sure about east) plus combo team
Moose (Orange and White)
Igloo (1 and the combo team)
S2S (2 teams)
ECE (1)
Rush (1)
Recon/True (1)
Checkmate (1)
BTB (1)
Also True Blue likely has a team, they usually put out a team at each age.
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